🌍 SAVE THE DATE! 🌍 The world is your classroom, Terps! Whether you're a freshman exploring your options or an upperclassman ready to take the leap, grab a friend and join us at the Study Abroad Fair! Wednesday, Sept. 10 2-5 p.m. RSVP today: go.umd.edu/20h3

Registration is open for the 2025 NASA #SpaceApps Challenge! 🌍🚀💫 Join the largest annual global hackathon, choose from 450+ Local Events, and use open data from #NASA & 14 Space Agency Partners. Register today: bit.ly/3TwZnzl

How do different types of forest regrowth impact carbon recovery? Xueyuan (Eric) Gao (Ph.D. ’24), now postdoc at Princeton, tackled this in a Nature Communications paper that earned ESA’s 2025 Early Career Ecologists Outstanding Paper Award 🎉 go.umd.edu/esa-award-2025

New UMD GLAD Department of Geographical Sciences study: Unprecedentedly high global #forest disturbance due to #fire in 2023 and 2024 pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… #forestfires #remotesensing #forestloss #climatechange

🚨 Reminder: Abstracts for our #AGU25 joint session with NASA Acres on satellite-based ag monitoring are due July 30! Submit to GC094: “Satellite Solutions: Agricultural Monitoring Through Remote Sensing” 🌍🛰️ Submit here: agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/prel…

If you thought forest fires were getting worse, you’re right 🌍🔥 UMD’s UMD GLAD found record-breaking forest loss in 2023–2024, with fires now driving over 40% of global forest disturbance. Learn more: go.umd.edu/record-wildfir…

💥DEADLINE IS JULY 30!💥 How do you use Landsat? Consider sharing your Landsat application stories in the 'Unlocking Value with Landsat and Landsat Next' session at the upcoming #AGU25 Annual Meeting (Dec 15-19 - in New Orleans!). Learn more here: ow.ly/9LfZ50WrPeN.

It’s hard to capture the full impact Brad Doorn has had on the world. Through his leadership at NASA, he championed the use of Earth science to improve ag & food security globally. His vision & dedication have shaped a better future for all of us. 👉nasaharvest.org/news/thank-you…

🌍 Interested in tree & forest dynamics? Submit your abstract to AGU 2025 Session GC002: Advances in Remote Sensing & Modeling of Tree and Forest Dynamics convened by GLP member, Dr. Xiangming Xiao 📅 Deadline: July 30, 2025 🔗 agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/prel…

🎓 Calling all Geographical Sciences alumni 🌍 Please complete our Post-Graduation Alumni Survey! 📋forms.gle/YgsMmazSNG1pDS… 🕒 It only takes a few minutes Thank you for helping us build a stronger Geographical Sciences community at UMD! ❤️💛

🌍 In 2023 & 2024, the world’s forest carbon sink hit its lowest point in 20+ years. Fires & deforestation drove forests to absorb just 25% of their usual carbon — with parts of 🇨🇦 & 🇧🇴 flipping from sink to source. The margin is narrowing fast. ➡️ bit.ly/3UytGpu

#SpottedLanternflies are more prevalent in the #DMVArea this year. UMD Entomology's Mike Raupp spoke with FOX 5 DC's Josh Rosenthal about why. fox5dc.com/news/spotted-l…

University of Maryland Research Roundup: TRAILS Seed Grants, Infant Formula, Ancient DNA and More! 🐢 Read this week's edition of the Research Roundup at: lnkd.in/eHzVAHsT Don't forget to subscribe by giving us a follow or joining our mailing list at

Department of Geographical Sciences UMD GLAD Natural forests are the world's breathing space. If this continues,😓

Proud to share my new RSE paper on the Radiative Thermal Index (RTI)—a high-resolution drought indicator from ECOSTRESS LST, capturing soil moisture and vegetation water stress across Sub-Sahara and India. Scalable to #TRISHNA, #LSTM, and #SBG! 🌍🌡️ 🔗 authors.elsevier.com/a/1lVtF7qzT72Rh

🌍 Save the Date: Aug. 19 🌳 We'll welcome Drs. Thorsten Wiegand & Andreas Huth from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research for a seminar. 🌱 Forest spatial dynamics & species coexistence 🌲 Tropical forests & carbon cycle modeling Details: go.umd.edu/20qa

🚨 Last chance to submit! 🚨 Our #AGU25 session on Earth observation for agriculture is still accepting abstracts, but time is running out. 🗓️ Deadline: July 30 at 11:59 PM ET 🛰️ Session GC094 🌍 Global ag | 🇺🇸 U.S. ag | 🌱 Ag tech 🔗 agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/prel…

📢 Help us spread the word! 🎓 Calling all Geographical Sciences alumni 🌎 Please complete our Post-Graduation Alumni Survey: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… Thank you 🐢

The latest NASA Harvest newsletter is out! Inside: • Tracking crops in conflict zones like Tigray 🛰️🌽 • 5 years of ag education with Argentina’s Bolsa 🇦🇷 • Farewell to Earth science leader Brad Doorn • Why crop rotation matters 🌱 Read it here! 👉 conta.cc/4mftM19